A staff with skills which focus on boons and heals would greatly complement the class. Unfortunately I fear new weapons are reserved for future expansions.
Completely new weapon types (like battleaxes) would certainly be expansion material given the amount of work required to make a completely new weapon type (dozens of new models, multiple new movesets for multiple classes, ect), but I can see them adding existing weapons to classes in a monthly update, provided the focus of the update was weapon expansion (and not a storyline update).
That is, of course, assuming their at all inclined to do so. They may consider the current weapon sets perfect and have no intention of adding more (existing) weapons to the current classes, so they only way they’d ever expand weapons is with completely new ones. Hard to say.
I’d actually prefer Scepter to Staff just so we could possibly have a 1H ranged weapon which doesn’t have an aggro-magnet AoE like Axe does. But either one would work fine, and I think would fit Ranger better than the Rifle that everyone and their mother keeps asking for. With spirits and the like in our arsenal, a magical option seems to fit better than a gun IMO.
I also agree that having it buff / heal related would be great synergy with the Ranger class. Would be nice to have a weapon which would really focus on pets to go along with pet-heavy builds, and group heals / buffs would to that nicely.
